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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Vercueil do after being beaten?
(a) He goes to the hospital.
(b) He stops drinking.
(c) He leaves.
(d) He sleeps.

2. What does the narrator bring the person that lives near her house the morning after his return?
(a) Cocoa.
(b) Tea.
(c) Water.
(d) Coffee.

3. Why do the youth of the township do?
(a) Drive white people out of the township.
(b) Burn their own school.
(c) Fight with white students.
(d) Burn a police station.

4. What was the narrator's profession before retiring?
(a) Housewife.
(b) Dock worker.
(c) Police officer.
(d) College professor.

5. Who calls the narrator as she plays music?
(a) A police officer.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) An old friend.
(d) A bystander.

6. What is the call the narrator receives while playing music about?
(a) A homeless man is exposing himself.
(b) The pool house is on fire.
(c) A dog is loose on her property.
(d) A vagrant on her property.

7. What disease is the narrator diagnosed with?
(a) Terminal cancer.
(b) A heart condition.
(c) Alzheimer's.
(d) Lupus.

8. What do the narrator and her housekeeper do after talking with Mr. Vercueil in the kitchen?
(a) Push the woman in the pool.
(b) Take the woman and push her out the house.
(c) Pack his suitcase and throw it out the window.
(d) Take the woman and bring her to the police.

9. What does one of Bheki's friends bring to the narrator's home?
(a) A bicycle.
(b) A political pamphlet.
(c) A video cassette.
(d) A gun.

10. Where does the housekeeper live?
(a) Guwata.
(b) Watara.
(c) Soweto.
(d) Gugultu.

11. Why isn't Bheki in school?
(a) Because he wants to join the army.
(b) Because he is a genius that don't need to study.
(c) Because he thinks he can have a college scholarship because of basketball.
(d) Because he thinks the school was created to make him fit in the apartheid system.

12. How long does the man work before being paid by the narrator?
(a) A couple of weeks.
(b) A couple of days.
(c) A couple of month.
(d) A couple of hours.

13. Who harasses and beats Mr. Vercueil one day?
(a) The narrator.
(b) Florence.
(c) Bheki and two other white boys.
(d) Bheki and another boy.

14. Where is the man that the narrator brings on her trip to town from?
(a) Kroncity.
(b) The Cape.
(c) South Central.
(d) Johannesburg.

15. What does the narrator ask the man to do after seeing what he purchased?
(a) To keep the unspent money.
(b) To give the unspent money to a charity.
(c) To return what he purchased.
(d) To return the unspent money to her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was the housekeeper absent?

2. Who is the narrator addressing in this book?

3. What does the narrator feel about the person she is addressing in this book?

4. What is Mr. Vercueil doing in the back yard that the housekeeper's daughters watch?

5. What did the narrator find most troubling after her house was burglarized?

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